Self-Awareness, Conscious Choices, Transformed Relationships
How to Use the Voice Dialogue Process in Your Daily Life
Hi, I'm Astra
Welcome to this resource to help you get to know and understand yourself and your relationships with the Voice Dialogue model of consciousness.
You'll find explanatory material on key concepts, posts on particular topics and inner selves common to many of us, and tips and exercises to help with decision-making, moving on from old patterns, getting unstuck, gaining access to new and suppressed ideas and abilities, and improving relationships.
This website will interest you if you're on a personal growth and healing journey and/or if you're a therapist or coach wanting to learn about Voice Dialogue for training in it.
I’m a Voice Dialogue teacher and author with over 35 years experience doing this consciousness work, and have trained directly with Voice Dialogue's founders Drs Hal and Sidra Stone, who highly recommend my work.
Get started with my FREE Introduction to Voice Dialogue ebook (download via the form below). It gives you an example of how you can use Voice Dialogue to make conscious decisions, introduces you to 20 selves, and shares an exercise to discover your primary and disowned selves.
“We consider Astra Niedra to be an outstanding teacher, trainer and facilitator of the Voice Dialogue process”
Introduction to Voice Dialogue Ebook
What is Voice Dialogue?
Voice Dialogue is a method for exploring the selves — the units of the psyche that make up who you are — and it also refers to the theory underlying the method, known as The Psychology of Selves.
🧍 Some of your selves are in charge — maybe the Pleaser, the Responsible Self, the Achiever, the Rational Mind, the Seeker or the Rebel.
🎭 Others show up only now and then — such as the Joker, the Singer, the Adventurer, or the Playful Child.
🔒 And some you've pushed away or rejected altogether — like your Vulnerable Inner Child, Instinctual Self, Spontaneous Self, Emotional Self or Warrior.
Your unique combination of selves shapes how you think, feel, relate and act.
So if you feel stuck in some way and want to become unstuck, if you've noticed patterns of behaviour — in yourself or in your relationships — that you'd like to change, then Voice Dialogue can help.
The Voice Dialogue process allows you to recognise which selves you’ve become identified with and understand why those selves took charge, how they keep you safe, and which parts of yourself have been rejected or hidden.
As your awareness of and connection to your various selves grows, you develop the capacity to make conscious choices, rather than acting — or re-acting — from habit.
🔍 Learn more about developing this capacity with Voice Dialogue
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“I consider the Voice Dialogue process to be one of the most powerful tools for personal growth that I’ve ever discovered.”
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“WOW Astra, you do write the most wonderful applications of Voice Dialogue for a better world.”
🎥 Watch Voice Dialogue in Action
Whether you're on your own personal growth journey, or a therapist or coach, this video + audio series lets you experience real Voice Dialogue sessions, hear explanations directly from Drs Hal and Sidra Stone, and see how to begin using this method right away.
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Comments
Brava Astra:
Your website is stunning, visually beautiful, and full of ideas and information. I wish you were nearby so we could meet and talk.
Regards,
Dassie Hoffman
Thanks for your wonderful feedback Dassie – I would love to go to New York again some day… if/when I do, I’ll definitely be in touch!
Please add me to your em list for new blog posts….thank you
Blessings,
coly
Hi Coly – to be added to the mail list you will need to fill in the subscription form on my site (the form appears on most pages). I’m unable to add you manually because it is an automated process.
Thank you,
Astra
I second that. Really wonderful, readable and informative.
Thanks Zohar!
Hello,
Your site was recommended to me by a friend who works with Voice Dialogue an I am interested in learning more. I signed up for your free download, but did not receive an email confirmation. My experience with email confirmations is that they usually are almost “automatic,” in that they happen almost instantaneously after signing up. I just wondered if there’s a problem from my end, or maybe yours.
Many thanks for your response.
Hi Judy – can you remember which form, on which page, you signed up on? That would make it easier to check if there’s a mistake in the settings for that type of form.
Thanks for your response, Astra. I believe the page I signed up on was the one that features the book & free download. I’ve actually completed the form a couple of times. I clicked on the image of the book on the sidebar. https://www.voicedialogue.com/astra-niedra-voice-dialogue-in-daily-life/subscribe-to-updates/
Hi Judy – I’ve tested the form and it works for me, and I’m getting notifications daily that other people are downloading the ebook, so I don’t know what the problem might be. You should receive a ‘Confirm your request’ email as soon as you submit the form. Maybe check your junk and spam folders in case that’s where it’s going?
Wow Astra. You made some kind of magic happen! I completed the form again, immediately got an email confirmation, confirmed on your site and voila!! the ebook arrived.
Thank you so much. Who knows what happened previously, but something changed and we’re connected. I look forward to reading the book and to your newsletters.
Many thanks,
Judy
That’s great! I hope you enjoy the ebook. There’s also plenty of information throughout my website. I hope you gain something of value from it all.
Kind regards,
Astra
Astra,
Thank you for the writing and information you’ve created and shared. It’s come at a time when I most need it. I look forward to learning more over time as I read more and hope to heal. It wasn’t until I shut down social media that I began to truly understand how empty I’ve become.
In any case. Thank you.
I’m so glad it’s helped. Take care of yourself, Astra.
Hi Astra,
Do you offer VD sessions on a 1 on 1 basis? I am interested in have a session to help with some areas in my live.
I am away of VD and have used it within my own life to a certain point however I need some more support to dig a bit deeper.
Thank you for your consideration.
Carmel
Hi Carmel – sorry for taking so long to reply. At the moment I’m not seeing any clients but might start up again this year. I can let you know when I do. In the meantime, there’s a list of facilitators worldwide here: https://www.voicedialogueinternational.com/resources-index.htm. I’d suggest going through some of the profiles to see who you might like to work with. Many facilitators now offer sessions online so you can work with someone from just about anywhere.
All the best and kind regards,
Astra
Hi,
I purchased your vices however cannot seem to find them. Can you please send me the link again?
Kindest regards, Joelle
Hi Joelle – Can you please specify which book you purchased? I actually don’t handle any sales myself as they go through the bookstores so you’ll have to contact whichever store you purchased it from. If, however, it’s the free ebook you’re referring to, could you please re-subscribe to my mail list and you’ll be able to download it again. It all happens on autopilot. Let me know if you need further help, Astra
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